An emergency dispatcher has been reassigned after telling a teen who had witnessed her father being fatally struck by a vehicle to “stop whining,” WJZ reports. According to the news station, the teenage girl saw both her father and his fiancee being hit by a car on the Baltimore-Washington Highway and frantically called 911 for…

ThinkProgress has uncovered a series of Facebook posts allegedly made by an Illinois Republican’s senior adviser for policy and communications, in which he made controversial, racially charged comments and endorsed gentrification. Rep. Aaron Schock’s press secretary, Benjamin Cole, who is also a former Baptist pastor, the site notes, apparently made several posts on Oct. 13,…

Heather Mack, the Chicago teen who, along with her boyfriend, is accused of murdering her mother in Bali, has reportedly claimed that she has no representation while she stands trial, the Daily Mail reports. Mack, 19, who is seven months pregnant, and her 21-year-old boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, were charged with premeditated murder for the death…

Be careful what you post. One Detroit-area man has found himself in federal court after he was arrested and charged with threatening to behead New York City Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo, who was involved in Staten Island dad Eric Garner’s death, the Detroit Free Press reports. According to the report, 29-year-old Alvaro Eduardo Guzman-Telles posted…

The 19-year-old son of an Episcopal priest has been charged with capital murder in the deaths of his parents and little brother in Houston, the Associated Press reports.  Isaac Tiharihondi was arrested in Jackson, Miss., early Wednesday morning and remains in jail as he awaits extradition to Texas, the news site notes. The family—Israel Ahimbisibwe,…

County Singer Larry Gatlin had a special message on Wednesday’s Fox & Friends for Democratic Florida Rep. Alcee Hastings, singing that he would kick the Democrat in the “behind” if he insulted Texas, Raw Story reports. On Monday Hastings called Texas a “crazy state” during a House committee hearing while discussing why the Affordable Care…

Charlie Sifford, the first African American to play on the PGA Tour, passed away on Tuesday at the age of 92, the PGA of America confirmed, according to The Guardian.  “His love of golf, despite many barriers in his path, strengthened him as he became a beacon for diversity in our game,” PGA of America…

An officer from the Louisville Metro Police Department in Kentucky has been arrested on various charges, including assault and wanton endangerment, in two separate incidents at a school, WHAS 11 reports.  The department suspended Jonathan Hardin, 31, without pay after his arrest. Both incidents took place while Hardin was working as a school resource officer,…

Students at South Pointe High School in South Carolina wasted no time in turning around the ugly message that had been spray-painted across a spirit rock outside the school over the weekend, turning it into a message of equality, the Herald Online reports.  The first, racist message, which read “Happy N—ger Month” and was signed…

New York City Police Officer Joel Edouard has been charged with assault after he allegedly kicked a subdued suspect’s head in an incident captured on video, the New York Post reports. Edouard, 37, is set to be arraigned on Tuesday, the site notes. The controversial arrest in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of the borough of Brooklyn occurred…